Ukrainian military officials are claiming the biggest shelling in the country since the February Minsk ceasefire was agreed to. They claimed 400 rebel fighters with an unspecified number of tanks attacked the village of Starohnativka, north of Mariupol.
There’ve been skirmishes along the government-rebel frontier throughout the Minsk ceasefire, though it has more or less held. The rebels are denying any incidents today, however, and say they didn’t make any moves near Starohnativka.
That’s unusual, as normally fighting in eastern Ukraine is affirmed by both sides, with each trying to blame the other for the incidents. This is doubly so in shellings, as the Ukraine government often accuses the rebels of shelling themselves for no apparent reason just to try to deflect blame when incidents happen.
Ukraine’s military claimed they shelled the rebels, halted the offensive and “regained lost ground.” There were no reports of casualties on either side, despite the claims of intense fighting. Ukrainian officials suggested the incident could be the start of a new round of escalations.
They are reporting phantom attacks and phoney victories now? I guess when there's relative peace they even have to make stuff up.
If we listened to Ukraine's version of matters there would be tens of thousands of Russian Troops, and thousands of tanks, there, if they were there the US would release the satellite pictures, strange that they don't though! We are seeing the restarting of the pre winter supply requests! It quietened down over summer because the world was seeing the Neo Nazi groups for what they are, so Nuland has had to go and tell them to pull there collective heads in! Now they are under a little control the world can hear again of the alleged plight of Ukraine, and the aggressive Russians! Not withstanding the Ukraine's when they performed their coup, said that they were going to get rid of the Sub Human Russian speaking scum from Eastern Ukraine!
The most likely reason why the mercenaries are keeping quiet is that the Ukrainian military has indeed scored a victory and the only way Putin's boys can conceal it is to pretend it never happened.
LOL